Today you can pick up an Apple Watch Series 6 smartwatch with a $70 discount. Apple’s Series 6 smartwatch has built-in hardware for tracking your blood oxygen level and heart rate. These features as well as a built-in fitness tracker make the Watch Series 6 an excellent accessory for any exercise routine. This model is also up to 20 percent faster than its predecessor, the Watch Series 5. You can now get one of these watches from Amazon marked down from $429.00 to $349.00. Amazon’s Echo Show 5 features a 5.5-inch display and is compatible with a wide range of Amazon- and Alexa-enabled services.
It’s amazing what technology can do these days. With the realm of internet-connected devices no longer only contain computers and smartphones, the applications of internet technology, robotics control, and devices are truly limitless. Learning to create and control your own devices can be either a rewarding hobby to explore or a lucrative career path. And with the right start, you can get learning immediately, to find out the best of the required concepts to take your programming, electronics, and robotics skills even further. A great place to start upgrading your skills is with , which is currently on sale for just $19.99.
Microsoft lifted the lid on Windows 11 today, capping several weeks of speculation, testing, and argument over the size of the OS update and the degree to which it would upend the status quo. The company had a lot to say about the quality of life improvements coming to Windows 11, and while it’s not going to reinvent the wheel, it has some features to recommend it. Windows 11 will be a free upgrade in the fall, with some caveats attached. At long last, Windows 11 will be 64-bit only. This doesn’t mean 32-bit applications aren’t supported, but 32-bit processors won’t be able to install the OS.
Microsoft , and we knew most of what was coming thanks to the recent leak of a working preview build of the OS. There’s the new start menu, revamped Microsoft Store, and so on. One thing we did not expect was Microsoft’s decision to . It’s a page right out of the Chrome OS and macOS playbooks. Amazon launched its app store back in the early days of Android when the Play Store (née Android Market) was rife with junk. At the time, Amazon’s pledge to curate an app store sounded like a good deal. However, most developers treated the Amazon Appstore as an afterthought, and it never got most of the apps that are available today on the Play Store.
Gaming is at an all time high in terms of popularity right now with gaming hardware becoming increasingly hard to find. Today for just $2,577 you can buy one of Dell’s new Alienware M15 R4 that has all the hardware you need to run games with blistering speed and with high quality graphics settings. Intel Core i7-10870H 15.6-Inch 1080p 300Hz Gaming Laptop w/ Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, 32GB DDR4 RAM and 3x512GB M.2 PCI-E SSD for $2,577.39 from Dell (List price $2,879.99) for $398.87 from Amazon (List price $449.00) External SSD for $149.99 from Amazon (List price $199.99) 4K HDR Media Player for $39.00 from Amazon (List price $49.99) M1 Chip 256GB SSD 13.3″ Laptop for $899.99 from Amazon (List Price $999) Robot Vacuum and Mop (Black) for $359.99 from Amazon (List Price $599.99)
The Hubble Space Telescope has been offline for a week , and it might take longer than we expected to get it back up and running. NASA reports it has made several attempts to switch to backup memory modules, but it hasn’t worked. The team is now that the issue is more severe, but we won’t know the damage until the investigation is further along. The trouble started on June 13th when the telescope’s payload computer stopped working. This is a separate system from Hubble’s main computer that controls the science instruments. It pings the main computer with a “keep alive” signal, but that stopped on June 13th.
Amazon’s Prime Day sales event is now officially over but there are still a few deals that are lingering on including a $100 discount on Apple’s MacBook Air M1 and a $240 discount on a high-end robot vacuum. M1 Chip 256GB SSD 13.3″ Laptop for $899.99 from Amazon (List Price $999) Robot Vacuum and Mop (Black) for $359.99 from Amazon (List Price $599.99) USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive for $54.99 from Amazon (list price $62.99) HD/4K/HDR Streaming Media Player for $29.99 from Amazon (List Price $39.99) HDR Streaming Player for $69.00 from Amazon (List Price $99.99) Wireless Earbuds for $197.99 from Amazon (List Price $249.00)
The outer solar system is littered with big chunks of rock and ice, but rarely do their orbits bring them close enough to Earth for us to get a good look. And then there’s 2014 UN271, an approaching object that astronomers believe to be a huge comet on a million-year orbit around the sun. In a few years, UN271 might get close enough to put on a neat fireworks display, Gizmodo. UN271 most likely originated in the Oort Cloud, a theorized cluster of icy chunks of rock hovering at the solar system’s edge. This material is believed to be left over from the solar system’s formation, but it’s too far away to see clearly.
Intel and SiFive made a pair of announcements yesterday that underscore how serious the chip giant is about ramping its own foundry services. First, Intel has announced it has reorganized its manufacturing division and licensed SiFive’s IP portfolio. This is significant, as it gives Intel the flexibility it needs to offer a diverse set of solutions to potential customers. It’s not enough to just license a RISC-V CPU core. That core needs to hook to memory controllers, expansion buses, and possibly other compute devices depending on the role the RISC-V core plays in the system. Second, Intel has announced that it will build its own RISC-V development platform, code-named Horse Creek.
